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Privacy Statement for VolunteerNow.info
Introduction
Volunteer Now: Macomb Area Volunteer Center (MAVC) and Western Illinois University Volunteer Services (WIUVS) are committed to maintaining privacy. We receive information from our users from three main sources: Internet addresses (IP addresses), browser cookies, and registration information and response forms.
Internet Addresses (IP Addresses)
IP addresses are a series of digits used by computers to identify themselves to other computers. We use IP addresses to:
- help diagnose problems with our server
- administer our Web site
- gather broad demographic information
IP addresses cannot be used to identify users, and we cannot track individual users with IP addresses. See ZDWebopedia for more information about IP addresses.
Browser Cookies
Browser cookies are small temporary files we put on your hard drive. We use browser cookies to:
- deliver content specific to your interests quickly
- help you access the VolunteerNow.info volunteer opportunities database
So that we can deliver content specific to your interests, we need you to accept cookies on your web browser (the default for most browsers is to accept cookies). For your online protection and privacy, these browser cookies:
- do not save any passwords or sensitive information
- are automatically deleted from your machine after your visit to VolunteerNow.info is complete
This ensures that no other web sites can maliciously garner any information about you from your VolunteerNow.info visit. Deciding not to store any permanent browser cookies on your machine means we have to do a bit more work to deliver the content you need,
but we feel comfortable making this trade-off. See The Unofficial Cookie FAQ for more information about browser cookies.
Registration Information and Response Forms
Our registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name and email address) and unique identifiers. We use this contact information to:
- send information about our organization to the user
- contact the user, if necessary
At any time, users may contact us to remove or change information in our database.
Our online response forms may ask visitors for contact information (like their email address) and/or demographic information (like their zip code or age). These response forms are used to gauge our volunteers' experiences with volunteer opportunities o
r as a means to submit any other comments about VolunteerNow.info. The users' contact information is used to contact the user only when necessary.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. The staff of MAVC and WIUVS maintains data submitted to this site, and no other organization or business has security access to this
database. Information in this database will not be provided to anyone outside of MAVC or WIUVS. It will also not be used as a "recruiting tool" by agencies to contact you individually about volunteer opportunities without your consent.
We will never ask you for any sensitive unique identifiers such as your social security number or password. We will also never ask you for any financial information such as income, account numbers, and credit card information.
We currently do not anticipate sending out mass emails of any kind to our users. If this occurs in the future, we will notify users before adding their names to a list. Users will also be given clear instructions on how to remove themselves off the lis
t.
What We Don't Cover
This site contains links to other sites, and VolunteerNow.info is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites.
Contacting Us
If you wish to remove or change information in our database, or if you have any questions about this privacy statement or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at:
Volunteer Now: Macomb Area Volunteer Center
232 East Jackson St.
Macomb, IL 61455
(309) 836-3754
E-mail: volunteernow@macomb.com
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WIU Volunteer Services
Office of Student Activities
Western Illinois University
Macomb, IL 61455
(309) 298-3232
FAX: (309) 298-2879
E-mail: ma-kubasak@wiu.edu
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